30 Rock!

My favorite tv show is, without a doubt, 30 Rock. I love the humor and I have a huge crush on Tina Fey (who doesn't though, right?!) And after Professor Tait's lecture, I enjoyed trying to categorize 30 Rock within a sitcom category. Tait did use 30 Rock as an example within the lecture, but with the aspect of characters, and I can see that 30 Rock definitely has axial characters. But, what I could not figure out was whether the show was episodic or serial. I think that the show definitely has traits of both. Tait used an example with "Friends," asking if two characters will ever get together, which that itself displays both examples of serial and episodic. Seeing as Tait said that it is important for a sitcom to contain characteristics of both, 30 Rock is the perfect example of a sitcom containing both episodic and serial traits.
Throughout 30 Rock, we see the life and shenanigans of Liz Lemon, the head writer of a comedy show. Aside from her life, we see glimpses of other characters' lives, but only when Lemon is involved (which demonstrates the episodic characteristic of the sitcom; this really doesn't allow much character development for other characters, which is a tad disappointing). Liz always manages to learn a lesson from Jack Donague, or from her fellow coworkers. This lesson usually isn't learned until the last few minutes of the sitcom (a characteristic of episodic sitcoms), but the road to learning the lesson takes place the entire duration of the sitcom (this is where 30 Rock is not as serial centered). 30 Rock isn't as episodic in terms of the structure of the story lines. While most episodic sitcoms pick up where the last episode left off, 30 Rock doesn't have a structured plot. The script for the series is more sporadic as far as events and character development (meaning 30 Rock does not follow a long term plot, but does mean that the plot is not as predictable, a serial characteristic). To put it plain and simple, 30 Rock is an acrobat, walking a tight rope between Episodic and Serial.